‘Write about what is happening to the world? I can’t’: Shashi Deshpande on the coronavirus

‘Sometimes I wonder what it will be like, a world without the old.’

Shashi Deshpande

· Jun 28, 2020 · 11:30 am

On International Women’s Day, a reminder of what women really want

As women across India come out to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, have we reached a turning point?

Shashi Deshpande

· Mar 08, 2020 · 06:30 am

Citizenship Amendment Act protests across the country are reviving old heroes and forgotten ideals

The student-led movement has given us some painful images, but also some powerful ones.

Shashi Deshpande

· Jan 12, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Shashi Deshpande: ‘Rape is an offshoot of the idea of power. Most women still remain powerless’

All the poems, the novels, the stories authors write, all the terrible stories that journalists give the world, cannot stop a single man from raping.

Shashi Deshpande

· Dec 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

Shashi Deshpande: ‘Will India become a Hindu nation and non-Hindus become second-class citizens?’

The noted author on the growing chasms that Indians must confront.

Shashi Deshpande

· Dec 11, 2018 · 08:00 am

Novelist Shashi Deshpande on the difficulties of being a woman who writes (or, a ‘woman writer’)

‘There never has been a shortage of males criticising women’s writing.’

Shashi Deshpande

· Nov 16, 2018 · 08:30 am